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Key points
- President Donald Trump said about $3.8 billion a year in US military aid to Israel will end by the end of 2026.
- He said he agreed it with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who he said raised the idea.
- No order or bill has been made public, and the current agreement runs to 2028. The Associated Press described the stop as taking effect in 2027.
What was said
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, November 3, that the United States will stop providing about $3.8 billion a year in military aid to Israel by the end of 2026. He spoke in a telephone interview on Fox News’ Fox & Friends on Election Day.
“We were giving them $4 billion. We are. But it gets cut off at the end of the year,” Trump said, according to reports of the interview.
Trump said he had reached an understanding with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discontinue the payments, and said Netanyahu had raised the idea months earlier. He also said Israel is a successful country that no longer needs the financial support, and that Israel could still buy US military equipment.
What is not yet clear
No order, budget request or bill giving effect to the statement had been made public by the afternoon of November 3, according to reports of the interview. The Israeli government had not immediately confirmed the specific agreement described by Trump.
The Associated Press described the end of the payments as taking effect in 2027, not at the end of 2026, and a spokesman for Prime Minister Netanyahu told NBC News he did not know anything about the remarks. The White House and the prime minister’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Reuters.
The current funding framework is a 10-year memorandum of understanding signed in 2016, providing about $38 billion over fiscal years 2019 to 2028 — about $3.3 billion a year in Foreign Military Financing and $500 million a year for cooperative missile-defence programmes. Congress appropriates the money each year, so a presidential statement alone does not end the funding.
It is also not yet clear which funds would stop first, what would happen to weapons orders already paid for, or how the change would be put in writing.
Why it matters
The announcement, if carried out, would change one of the largest US military-aid arrangements. The existing agreement runs until 2028, about two years after the date Trump named. The next step is whether the White House publishes a formal plan and whether Congress, whose makeup voters were deciding in the November 3 midterm elections, goes along with it.
Reflecto News will update this story if a formal order, agreement or congressional action is published.
